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Robert Allen will give an illustrated presentation at the next meeting of the Sunshine Coast Natural History Society on Friday night, Feb. 6.

He will describe a mountain top ceremony in July 2012 for the naming of Mount Gerry Andrews in the Flathead Valley in south eastern B.C. Andrews was a pioneer land surveyor, ending up as chief air survey engineer for B.C. He had also a distinguished career in the Canadian Army.

Allen will also present details of some less-travelled places in B.C. and the Yukon, from the mid 1960s to the present day, that he has encountered over his long career as a B.C. land surveyor.

Allen was born in Comox and went to school in Courtenay. He studied surveying at BCIT until 1967. After apprenticing with the B.C. Department of Highways for approximately four and a half years, he became a licensed B.C. Land Surveyor and Canada Land Surveyor.

Allen is a life member of the Association of BC Land Surveyors and a member of the Association of Canada Lands Surveyors.

He moved to Sechelt in 1972 and has been retired now for 10 years from a successful land surveying business on the Sunshine Coast. He has been chair of the BC Land Surveyors Historical and Biographical Committee for the past 23 years. His current interests include hiking, fishing, hunting and birding.

The meeting next Friday starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre. New members are always welcome.